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A liquid-crystalline non-fullerene acceptor enabling high-performance organic solar cells

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Towards photovoltaic windows: scalable fabrication of semitransparent modules based on non-fullerene acceptors via laser-patterning

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Towards high-throughput exciton diffusion rate prediction in molecular organic semiconductors

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The Importance of Nonequilibrium to Equilibrium Transition Pathways for the Efficiency and Stability of Organic Solar Cells

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The Molecular Ordering and Double‐Channel Carrier Generation of Nonfullerene Photovoltaics within Multi‐Length‐Scale Morphology

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Tetrabromination versus Tetrachlorination: A Molecular Terminal Engineering of Nonfluorinated Acceptors to Control Aggregation for Highly Efficient Polymer Solar Cells with Increased Voc and Higher Jsc Simultaneously

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